📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Legambiente Cosenza is very active in environmental education in the schools about sustainability, renewable energies, agricolture waste management and sustainable lifestyles. It also participates in the national Legambiente campain Puliamo il mondo (the italian initiative of “CleanUp the World”) and its involved in several european projects related to PACS (communitarian agriculture Politics). Partner of workcamp I Ragazzi di San Lorenzo Bellizzi (“Young people from San Lorenzo Bellizzi”) is an association established in 2010. It aims to grow the culture and the quality of life of the local community. In particular, the main purpose is developping the local culture of business and making it interact with the territory, so that everybody can benefit from a general growth. Website: http://www.sanlorenzobellizzi.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Associazione-I-Ragazzi-Di-San-Lorenzo-Bellizzi--107470462651560/
💼 What the programme involves
WORK: The works on olive groves recovery will consist in eliminating weeds, cutting down shrubs andn plants that grew spontaneously over the years, removing stones and all that is needed for recovery of the plant. Ancient haystacks in the olive groves will be cleaned in order to restore this ancient buildings and clean from residues from stones, tiles and beams of the collapsed roof, wild plants, etc..The camp will contribute to the “Biodiversity Project” for mapping biodiversity in Pollino Park in collaboration with Pollino Park and Legambiente Campain for biodiversity. Workcamp will take part to Sustainable campaign of Alliance Network STUDY PART: The workcamp seminars session will be organized about brigants and history of Calabria,Rural life, and about biodiversity energy and agroecology water classe di dialetto. The volunteers will be actively involved in the preparation activities of the annual initiative of “Saperi e Sapori”, a traditional fest on the street of the town that connect the gastronomic tradition to cultural roots and town heritage.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be hosted in the Casa Parco shelter and can benefit by a convention with the local restaurants. No internet
📍 About the location
LOCATION AND LEISURE: San Lorenzo is a small town ubjeted to a strong depopulation as many villages in the south of Italy. The territory of San Lorenzo is a small treasure trove of beautiful landscapes characterized by canyons created by the Raganello river. Volunteers will visit the ancient roots of Brigants. The initiative will comprise an experience in the tent in the Pollino. Volunteers can visit also the “Grotta delle ninfe” (Ninphes' cave), a termal spring site.
TERMINAL: TERMINAL: Local Train Station: Trebisacce station, (Last bus at 16.00); plane: Lamezia Terme (SUF). Aeroporto di Bari Palese (BRI) > See also: www.aeroportodibari.com/ . By Bus: Autolinee S.A.J. See also: www.saj.it/sanlorenzo-trebisacce.htm for Trebisacce, Lamezia, Sibari
⚠️ Requirements
No internet addicted